wyszukanych pozycji: 28
The Political Economy of Media: Enduring Issues, Emerging Dilemmas
ISBN: 9781583671610 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 589 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The influence of media on society is unquestioned. Its reach penetrates nearly every corner of the world and every aspect of life. But it has also been a contested realm, embodying class politics and the interests of monopoly capital. In The Political Economy of Media, one of the foremost media critics of our time, Robert W. McChesney, provides a comprehensive analysis of the economic and political powers that are being mobilized to consolidate private control of media with increasing profit all at the expense of democracy. In this elegant and lucid collection, McChesney... The influence of media on society is unquestioned. Its reach penetrates nearly every corner of the world and every aspect of life. But it has also ... |
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152,43 zł |
The Endless Crisis: How Monopoly-Finance Capital Produces Stagnation and Upheaval from the USA to China
ISBN: 9781583676790 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The days of boom and bubble are over, and the time has come to understand the long-term economic reality. Although the Great Recession officially ended in 2009, hopes for a new phase of economic expansion were quickly dashed. Instead, growth has been slow, unemployment has remained high, wages and benefits have seen little improvement,
The days of boom and bubble are over, and the time has come to understand the long-term economic reality. Although the Great Recession officially ende...
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88,16 zł |
Blowing the Roof off the Twenty-First Century: Media, Politics, and the Struggle for Post-Capitalist Democracy
ISBN: 9781583674789 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the United States and much of the world there is a palpable depression about the prospect of overcoming the downward spiral created by the tyranny of wealth and privilege and establishing a truly democratic and sustainable society. It threatens to become self-fulfilling. In this trailblazing new book, award-winning author Robert W. McChesney argues that the weight of the present is blinding people to the changing nature and the tremendous possibilities of the historical moment we inhabit. In Blowing the Roof off the Twenty-First Century, he uses a sophisticated political economic...
In the United States and much of the world there is a palpable depression about the prospect of overcoming the downward spiral created by the tyranny ...
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158,36 zł |
The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9781583671054 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 367 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The symptoms of the crisis of the U.S. media are well-knowna decline in hard news, the growth of info-tainment and advertorials, staff cuts and concentration of ownership, increasing conformity of viewpoint and suppression of genuine debate. McChesney's new book, The Problem of the Media, gets to the roots of this crisis, explains it, and points a way forward for the growing media reform movement. Moving consistently from critique to action, the book explores the political economy of the media, illuminating its major flashpoints and controversies by locating them in the political economy... The symptoms of the crisis of the U.S. media are well-knowna decline in hard news, the growth of info-tainment and advertorials, staff cuts and con... |
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95,87 zł |
Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy: The Battle for the Control of U.S. Broadcasting, 1928-1935
ISBN: 9780195093940 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This work shows in detail the emergence and consolidation of U.S. commercial broadcasting economically, politically, and ideologically. This process was met by organized opposition and a general level of public antipathy that has been almost entirely overlooked by previous scholarship. McChesney highlights the activities and arguments of this early broadcast reform movement of the 1930s. The reformers argued that commercial broadcasting was inimical to the communication requirements of a democratic society and that the only solution was to have a dominant role for nonprofit and noncommercial...
This work shows in detail the emergence and consolidation of U.S. commercial broadcasting economically, politically, and ideologically. This process w...
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167,80 zł |
Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights: The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix It
ISBN: 9781595585486 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The sudden meltdown of the news media has sparked one of the liveliest debates in recent memory, with an outpouring of opinion and analysis crackling across journals, the blogosphere, and academic publications. Yet, until now, we have lacked a comprehensive and accessible introduction to this new and shifting terrain.
In Will the Last Reporter Please Turn out the Lights, celebrated media analysts Robert W. McChesney and Victor Pickard have assembled thirty-two illuminating pieces on the crisis in journalism, revised and updated for this volume. Featuring some of today s most... The sudden meltdown of the news media has sparked one of the liveliest debates in recent memory, with an outpouring of opinion and analysis crackling ...
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84,84 zł |
The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9781583671061 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The symptoms of the crisis of the U.S. media are well-knowna decline in hard news, the growth of info-tainment and advertorials, staff cuts and concentration of ownership, increasing conformity of viewpoint and suppression of genuine debate. McChesney's new book, The Problem of the Media, gets to the roots of this crisis, explains it, and points a way forward for the growing media reform movement. Moving consistently from critique to action, the book explores the political economy of the media, illuminating its major flashpoints and controversies by locating them in the political economy... The symptoms of the crisis of the U.S. media are well-knowna decline in hard news, the growth of info-tainment and advertorials, staff cuts and con... |
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227,72 zł |
Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times
ISBN: 9780252024481 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Addresses the corporate media explosion and the corresponding implosion of public life that characterizes our times.
Addresses the corporate media explosion and the corresponding implosion of public life that characterizes our times.
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157,35 zł |
Fayż Muḥammad Kātib Hazārah’s Afghan Genealogy and Memoir of the Revolution: Supplements to The History of Afghanistan
ISBN: 9789004391826 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 574 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book comprises English translations of Nizhādnāmah-i Afghān (Afghan Genealogy) and Taẕakkur al-Inqilāb (Memoir of the Revolution), the culminating works of Fayż Muḥammad Kātib Hazārah’s monumental history of Afghanistan, Sirāj al-tawārīkh (The History of Afghanistan). Nizhādnāmah-i Afghān, a detailed guide to all the ethnic and religious communities in Afghanistan in the first third of the 20th century, is the first locally-produced ethnography by a modern Afghan scholar. The Taẕakkur al-Inqilāb is Fayz Muhammad’s journalistic record of seven of the nine...
This book comprises English translations of Nizhādnāmah-i Afghān (Afghan Genealogy) and Taẕakkur al-Inqilāb (Memoir of the Revolution), the culm...
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1156,06 zł |
You Know You are a Runner
ISBN: 9781909943001 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The first book in the popular 'You know you are' series 'You Know You Are A Runner' takes a humorous look at the obsessive nature of runners based on submissions from runners and their families. It is the first book in the 'You Know You Are' series with 40 illustrated captions that will resonate with runners of all ages and abilities. Other titles include: You Know You Are A Nurse...You Know You Are An Engineer...You Know You Are A Dog Lover...You Know You Are A Golfer...You Know You Are Getting Older...You Know You Are A Teacher...You Know You Are A Mother... Purchase either the... The first book in the popular 'You know you are' series 'You Know You Are A Runner' takes a humorous look at the obsessive nature of runners base... |
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35,68 zł |
Kabul: A History 1773-1948
ISBN: 9789004323636 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Through years of neglect, deliberate modernization, and the effect of decades of war, Kabul's architectural history has virtually disappeared. By meticulous use of all available records including written works, photographs, films, and oral reminiscences, Kabul: A History 1773-1948 provides a remarkably complete and unsurpassed account of the city's history as seen through its built environment, from the pleasure gardens of the 16th and 17th century Mughals to the efforts of the Saduza'i and Muhammadza'i rulers of the 18th-20th centuries to turn this one-time resort town into a thriving...
Through years of neglect, deliberate modernization, and the effect of decades of war, Kabul's architectural history has virtually disappeared. By meti...
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709,40 zł |
Legal Positivism
ISBN: 9780814741894 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 481 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The aim of this collection of essays on legal positivism is to complete the already easily available English material on this subject. This is not a collection of writings by legal positivists, but about legal positivism. The aim of this collection of essays on legal positivism is to complete the already easily available English material on this subject. This is not ... |
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899,33 zł |
Media and Left
ISBN: 9781608465590 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this engaging collection scholars from across disciplines and across the world examine the contradictory nature of the media, revealing it to be democracy's greatest asset and its greatest threat. This volume explores a range of issues related to the topic of mass communication's impact on our increasingly globalized world--from the nature of communication, to the role of the media industry, to the way that new digital platforms have facilitated social movements in many countries.
By adopting an approach that both revisits the works of Karl Marx and other early theorists of... In this engaging collection scholars from across disciplines and across the world examine the contradictory nature of the media, revealing it to be de...
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165,69 zł |
Kabul Under Siege: Fayz Muhammad's Account of the 1929 Uprising
ISBN: 9781558761544 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An account of the 1929 uprising in Kabul. During the occupation Fayz Muhammad, a Kabul resident and historian, kept a detailed journal, which forms the basis of this book. It covers the occupiers' extortion, confiscation, and the resulting hardships, as well as the actions of those who resisted.
An account of the 1929 uprising in Kabul. During the occupation Fayz Muhammad, a Kabul resident and historian, kept a detailed journal, which forms th...
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503,09 zł |
Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex Is Destroying America
ISBN: 9781568589534 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Foreword by Senator Bernie Sanders Fresh from the first 10 billion election campaign, two award-winning authors show how unbridled campaign spending defines our politics and, failing a dramatic intervention, signals the end of our democracy. Blending vivid reporting from the 2012 campaign trail and deep perspective from decades covering American and international media and politics, political journalist John Nichols and media critic Robert W. McChesney explain how US elections are becoming controlled, predictable enterprises that are managed by a new class of consultants who...
Foreword by Senator Bernie Sanders Fresh from the first 10 billion election campaign, two award-winning authors show how unbridled campaign...
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137,21 zł |
People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy
ISBN: 9781568585215 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Humanity is on the verge of its darkest hour--or its greatest moment The consequences of the technological revolution are about to hit hard: unemployment will spike as new technologies replace labor in the manufacturing, service, and professional sectors of an economy that is already struggling. The end of work as we know it will hit at the worst moment imaginable: as capitalism fosters permanent stagnation, when the labor market is in decrepit shape, with declining wages, expanding poverty, and scorching inequality. Only the dramatic democratization of our economy can address the...
Humanity is on the verge of its darkest hour--or its greatest moment The consequences of the technological revolution are about to hit hard...
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165,85 zł |
Pox Americana: Exposing the American Empire
ISBN: 9781583671122 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This volume gathers the work of leading left-wing analysts of imperialism to examine the burning question of our timethe nature and prospects of the U.S. imperial project currently being given shape by war and occupation in the Middle East. Noam Chomsky, Immanuel Wallerstein, Peter Gowan, and others discuss the dynamics at work behind the "War on Terrorism." Their analyses locate recent developments within a longer historical arc, and set out the central questions for research and debate: Is U.S. unilateralism and militarism a sign of the increasing strength of the world's only... This volume gathers the work of leading left-wing analysts of imperialism to examine the burning question of our timethe nature and prospects of th... |
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452,81 zł |
Trump in the White House: Tragedy and Farce
ISBN: 9781583676813 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Tragedy and Farce.
Tragedy and Farce.
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571,88 zł |
Pox Americana: Exposing the American Empire
ISBN: 9781583671115 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This volume gathers the work of leading left-wing analysts of imperialism to examine the burning question of our timethe nature and prospects of the U.S. imperial project currently being given shape by war and occupation in the Middle East. Noam Chomsky, Immanuel Wallerstein, Peter Gowan, and others discuss the dynamics at work behind the "War on Terrorism." Their analyses locate recent developments within a longer historical arc, and set out the central questions for research and debate: Is U.S. unilateralism and militarism a sign of the increasing strength of the world's only... This volume gathers the work of leading left-wing analysts of imperialism to examine the burning question of our timethe nature and prospects of th... |
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96,15 zł |
An Afghan Prince in Victorian England
ISBN: 9780755645848 / Twarda / 2024 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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472,22 zł |